[Sigurd]

Twice now I received a 'psych' ;P when viewing my Diplo mount.

Two or three days back I was gladdened to see they raised it to 30 speed from 25. I said about TIME the damn horse which takes a couple hours of >effort< goes as fast (really it needs to have other benefits - if not physical - at least allowing it to have a visible tack or some customization, selectable color etc...) as the one you got with no effort at 10.

Now, I was in beta and on all my guys I was able to afford a horse between 7-9. Usually about the time I dinged 8 I'd buy a horse. Except my Varanjar which seemed to earn alot less cash and took till a bubble or 3 into 10.

Now, my first char was a Varathi in beta. I got the regular horse at 7 and then did the horse quest at 10. I then enjoyed my horse for a bit, understanding that it was free, just had a nominal quest attached and that is why it was slower (25 vs 30) I then sold my old bought horse for like 10s. By the time I was 11/12 I bought another in Khal so I could travel faster and used the 'light colored one' (doesn' t LOOK like a Vara horse...) when just messing around. In beta the Varanjar had a similar quest, although this one actually had difficulty because not many of us knew where this Veskal's was hehe and it was a long trip. I kept that horse because cash was hard to come by in beta for Varanjar. Not so now, seems similar to the rest.

Now, I have done the Diplo quest for Varanjar and Dark Elf. Both were difficult (the DE one I had more trouble on one of the final NPCs) and very very time consuming. So much so others leveled a few times while I completed this.

I got a horse of 25speed. I was underwhelmed, nothing special other than a 'reddish' tinge.

Even knowing this I did it again because I like doing quests and the storyline was interesting for another race.

My suggestion is that you split the horse from the newbiew Diplo line and make it a similar or harder set of quests again and give us a horse to be proud of - or leave it as IS and give us the same speed/stats. Really, by the time I finished the quest on my Varanjar shaman I had 35s... the Risk(time in this case with some death chances) v Reward balance on storebought vs quested horses is ridiculous.

PLEASE give visible (customizable) perks to Diplo horse, or give it better stability to offset the speed issues (if I recall Varathi horse was slower but more stable?) or make it the SAME or... make it an offshoot quest and make it considerably BETTER.

I'd be willing to hand in my horse to the quest NPC to do this new diplo quest.




Anyone else think we get the short end of the stick on this series? I mean - as it is now, I buy a horse and do the quest when I can...for feces and giggles, then the horse sits in bank.